Step Into History
Walk Glasgow in 1775
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Step Into History · City walk
Tobacco Lords' Glasgow, 1775
This walk visits Glasgow at the height of the tobacco boom, when merchant fortunes and Atlantic ships reshaped the riverfront and the city's westward streets. You will see the coal-dark Clyde crowded with tall ships, the merchants' classical churches and townhouses, and the plainstanes and markets where work and credit met the planter economies of Virginia and Maryland.
34 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Glasgow as it stood in 1775 (“Tobacco Lords”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. River Clyde Approach
- 2. Broomielaw Quay
- ↳ Quay Counting House · interior
- 3. Clyde Warehouses
- ↳ Riverside Tobacco Vault · interior
- ↳ Cooperage · interior
- 4. Shipwrights' Yard
- ↳ Master Shipwright's Workshop · interior
- 5. Saltmarket
- 6. Trongate Plainstanes
- 7. Trongate
- 8. Glasgow Cross
- 9. Tolbooth Steeple
- ↳ Council Chamber · interior
- 10. Tron Steeple
- ↳ Kirk Gallery · interior
- 11. High Street
- 12. Glasgow Cathedral
- ↳ Choir Aisle · interior
- 13. University on High Street
- 14. Gallowgate
- 15. St Andrew's Square
- 16. St Andrew's Church
- ↳ Parish Nave · interior
- 17. Virginia Street Mansions
- ↳ Merchant Stair Hall · interior
- 18. Virginia Mansion
- ↳ West Drawing Room · interior
- 19. Jamaica Street
- 20. Miller Street
- ↳ Merchant's Study · interior
- 21. Glassford's Mansion
- ↳ Great Saloon · interior
- 22. Glasgow Green